Effectiveness of Internet-delivered Group Brief Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (IGBCBT) on depressive symptoms among undergraduates students in Malaysia: A single group study

Yap, Guan Ji (2023) Effectiveness of Internet-delivered Group Brief Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (IGBCBT) on depressive symptoms among undergraduates students in Malaysia: A single group study. Final Year Project, UTAR.

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Abstract

Over the span of years, Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) has increased the rate of depression globally, with a 25% rise in incidence in the first year of COVID-19. Due to the high prevalence of major depression and depressive symptoms, there is a demand for psychological treatments that are both affordable and accessible. However, the notion of mental health is still in its infancy in Malaysia, where it suffers from a serious shortage of resources and studies on Internet-delivered Group Brief CBT (iGBCBT) on depression. To examine the effects of iGBCBT on depressive symptoms, unhelpful automatic thoughts, and dysfunctional attitudes, a purposive sampling method was used to perform a single-group study with five undergraduate students. The assessments used were Patient Health Questionnaire-9 (PHQ-9), Automatic Thought Questionnaire-8 (ATQ-8), and Dysfunctional Attitude Scale-Short Form v2 (DAS-SF2). Data were collected through Google Forms. The participants were Malaysian undergraduate students between the age of 22 and 23 (M = 22.4 years, SD = 0.548 years), with four males (80%) and one female (20%). A moderate effect size was observed in depressive symptoms (r = 0.600), unhelpful automatic thought (r = 0.500), and dysfunctional attitude (r = 0.600). Nevertheless, the outcome did not reach statistical significance (p > 0.05), suggesting that it may be due to a low sample size and insufficient statistical power. These findings provide a guideline for mental health practitioners and researchers in adapting it to their clinical settings and exploring the effect with a larger sample size in Malaysia.

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